tangle
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As Gát sees it, today’s discussion has become a tangle of separate questions.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026
The critics tangle with Taylor Swift: The singer’s recent singles, including “Patient Zero,” have not, to put it mildly, been critical darlings, but they are holding steady on the charts.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026
When they visited him, they found him under a tangle of tubes, with guards stationed outside his hospital room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
Most large companies have a tangle of software from different providers that they’ve knit together over time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
From our hiding spot, I could see out through the tangle of statue legs to the spot where we’d just been sitting.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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Some carriages were lying on their side in tangles of metal debris at the bottom of an embankment, while dozens of emergency services vehicles were racing to and from the site.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Researchers have long believed that amyloid buildup helps create the conditions in which harmful tau tangles develop.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
These regions also exhibited substantially more tau tangles, inflammation, and degeneration of brain tissue.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
He discusses his childhood tangles with bullies, his ordeals in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
At first I made no headway against its obstinate mats and tangles.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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The picture is not one of clean lineages but of a tangled web of contact and exchange extending across millions of years.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
Observers say the years since the COVID-19 pandemic emergency have shown how tangled the industry’s regulation can get in L.A., so investors are taking their money to other cities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Marine experts and firefighters have together helped to free a tangled dolphin spotted out of its depth in a Suffolk river.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Tammy Nuccio was struck by his arrogance when she tangled with him as head of the town council in Tolland, outside Hartford.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
She paused to pick at a rock that had tangled itself into the wool, then continued, “I mean, you won’t escape us either—who can escape an accident?—but at that moment, I wasn’t referring to us.”
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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Chief among them is the tension between Ferrari drivers Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc after they contrived to throw away a potential one-two finish in Mexico last Sunday by tangling on the first lap.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
But at least in this novel, the yarns overlap without tangling.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026
Ms. Crabapple’s great-grandfather, Samuel Rothbort, was a Russian-born Bundist who, after tangling with local thugs, immigrated to the U.S. and became a painter and chicken farmer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The administration was not interested in tangling with powerful trends that had been going on for decades.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025
I try to get to my feet, further tangling myself in the bushes.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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